McCenzie leads these deep-pocketed would-be adventurers in a mission to steal munitions from a despot, Colonel Lupo. (A prologue shows him blithely blowing up an Afghan village with children he has just met.) And how have the revolutionaries financed their cause? By selling a commando-mission experience to multimillionaires, offering the thrill of battle without actual peril. Craig McCenzie, a down-on-his-luck Afghanistan veteran hired by revolutionaries in a nameless region along the Romanian-Ukrainian border.

For the cast, shooting the movie ( in Ukraine) may have been a working vacation, but for viewers, watching it is an excruciating sentence of hard labor.Ĭhristian Slater plays Capt. Soon after the show lost what little it had going for it in the gritty realism department and was destined for cancellation.“Soldiers of Fortune,” an execrable action thriller plopped into a few local theaters without screenings for critics, is one abortive military mission. Let's face it-the guy can't act to save his life. This is when producers decided to 'spice-up' things a bit by making a couple of cuts in the cast and replacing them with none other than basketball's badboy(prima donna) Denis Rodman. Anyways unfortunately for those lucky enough to discover it, the show met with a drastic nose-dive on the second or third season. The plot wasn't difficult to follow-the operatives would be handed a secretive mission sponsored by unknown financiers(the good guys) and carry out the mission, usually eliminating the opposition(the bad guys). The stars of the show were the Major(who went on to make minor impact in small roles) who lead the group and Melinda Clark(the bombshell who went on to star in the O.C.) who was the gifted hacker/linguist ex-intel operative. It not only featured some excellent acting(for a TV action series), but the special effects were not bad either. It cataloged the covert actions of a small company of rogue ex-military and ex-intelligence types. However the series was a classic, one that was sadly ahead of its time(ahead of the popular terrorism fad brought on by modern events). OK, first off, this review and spot on IMDb is for the series not the movie.

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